You Still Look the Same by Farzana Doctor
A moving collection of poetry about navigating mid-life, full of humour and wit, from acclaimed novelist Farzana Doctor.
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Waking Occupations by Phoebe Wang
Poised between clarity and complexity, precision and ambiguity, Phoebe Wang’s poems capture the dilemma of unsettled citizenship. Her second collection is Waking Occupations.
Johnny Depp Wins, And I, Like So Many Others, Think of The Man Who Abused Me by Emma Rhodes
A poem by Emma Rhodes. The poem is about the extremely harmful media attention the case got, and public attitudes towards people who come forward with accusations of abuse.
Land of the Rock: Talamn an Carraig by Heather Nowlan
The speaker in the poems that form Land of the Rock: Talamh an Carraig travels through Newfoundland and Ireland looking for meaning in words, places, and behaviour.
You May Not Take the Sad and Angry Consolations by Shane Neilson
This newest collection of poetry from Shane Neilson mourns the destruction of what was and laments the state of the world.
P.S. by Penn Kemp and Sharon Thesen
In P.S., Kemp and Thesen spend a year writing to each other, once a month, and the result is 24 poems in conversation with each other that explore how poetic conversation works across months, across an ocean, across subjectivities, and across disparate ways of knowing.
Never the Less: Walking Poems by Gillian Jerome
In Nevertheless, a collection about love, grief, friendship, aging, neighbours and neighbourhoods, Jerome roams into ordinary places inside and outside of the city of Vancouver to find beings and states of being to sing about.
In the Writers’ Words: Conversations with Ten Canadian Poets, Volume II, by Laurence Hutchman
Bruce Meyer: “I am not sure poetry can save the world, but it is as good a place as any to start.”
A History of Touch by Erin Emily Ann Vance
A History of Touch is a poetry collection about women in folklore and history who were ill, disabled, or otherwise labelled ‘hysteric.’
Grit In Her Veins, Grace In Her Soul: Poetry for Bold Women by Sophia Devi
Written from a feminist perspective and as a woman of colour, GRIT IN HER VEINS, GRACE IN HER SOUL is a captivating collection of empowering and heartwarming poetry.
The Endless Garment: A Pocket Epic in Five Collections – Marguerite Pigeon
With equal parts love of the art form and social critique, Marguerite Pigeon ranges over time and space in a series of long poems that delve into the history and impact of fashion.
a glimpse of water fall: Poems by Jane Tims
Jane Tims is a writer, botanist and artist living in rural NB and author of five books of poetry. 'a glimpse of water fall' won Honorable Mention in the Writers’ Federation of New Brunswick’s competition for the Alfred G. Bailey Prize.
Here Was Paradise | Aquí era el paraíso by Humberto Ak’abal, Illustrations by Amelia Lau Carling
A collection of poetry by one of the greatest Indigenous poets of the Americas about the vanished world of his childhood — that of the Maya K’iche’.
Hunger Moon: Poems by Deborah Banks
In Hunger Moon, Deborah Banks explores these themes on the quiet landscape of her rural life. Here her interactions in the wide hush of a slowed world bring her a sense of community with those around her and with the great healing quality of the land that sustains us.
Shifting Baseline Syndrome by Aaron Kreuter
Shifting Baseline Syndrome is both searching and searing, veering between satire and sincerity, history and prophecy, and human and non-human worlds.